Robert A. Iger

John Swofford gets tired of answering ACC channel questions, and frankly, media grow weary of asking them. We realize he’s going to dodge. Heck, we understand he has to dodge.

Two reasons.

First: The longest tenured commissioner in league history at 19 years, Swofford loathes conducting business publicly. That aversion was cemented in 2003 when since-amended ACC bylaws made the conference’s expansion plans transparent and exposed Swofford and member CEOs as clumsy, indecisive and divided on the issue.

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